On the birthday day, I was "special guest" at school aftercare, with a bundle of yarny crafts and the jumbo yarn. The kids loved being a human knitting machine and the carers loved having all the kids tied up engaged.

Today was the party day. My plans for a low-key, set-the-kids-loose-in-a-park idea was relocated and reformatted when rain was predicted for this morning. Plan B was my studio and craft activities.....

...and a human Knitting Nancy.
I'm not sure what the kids thought of it all. Some were totally into it and others didn't seem to get it at all.

There were whispers amongst the adults about leaving the kids there and going for coffee.....
﻿We didn't. We stayed and had fabulous cake. But that deserves a blog post of its own (and I'm too exhausted to post it just now).

What a fabulous idea! I love totally hands on projects with kids, funny how an idea like this can seem scary but in reality the children's interest just drives the presentation. Thanks for sharing!Penny.